Manfred Hermann Schmid (10 August 1947 – 5 October 2021) was a German musicologist and Mozart expert.
He studied musicology with Gerhard Croll, Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht and Thrasybulos Georgiades, whose last doctoral student was Schmid.
In 1986 Schmid was appointed full professor of musicology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen as successor to Georg von Dadelsen.
Further fields of interest of Schmid were besides the general historical musicology especially the musical instrument, the notation and the Ethnomusicology.
Schmid was editor of the Mozart Studies (ISSN 0942-5217, until 2013, 22nd volume with Schneider, Tutzing, since 2015 with Hollitzer, Vienna) and the Tübinger Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft.